gkiokan - update subscriptions | Stripe Developers | Page 1

copper kraken May 30, 2022, 2:19 PM

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Hello! Just starting a thread for you -- I'll review and respond as soon as I can 🙂

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What do you mean by "lose your old invoices" here?

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Can you share an example?

sick stirrup May 30, 2022, 2:19 PM

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Sure, I am about to put that online so you guys can test it on a production / test environment but the issue is really strange for me now

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I am using the invoices endpoint to get all invoices, so I can list the old invoices and upcomming ones

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But when you do what I described with update, swap tier, cancel, somehow I lost the "old" invoices that where set already

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gimme around 10 minutes, I will deploy the updates on the public server and you can check it together with me

copper kraken May 30, 2022, 2:23 PM

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okie dokie

sick stirrup May 30, 2022, 2:24 PM

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I was just testing the following:
Subscribe to packet A
Then cancel
Subscribe to packet B

only the upcomming invoice for packet B is shown

copper kraken May 30, 2022, 2:25 PM

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Shown where?

sick stirrup May 30, 2022, 2:25 PM

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On my dashboard

copper kraken May 30, 2022, 2:25 PM

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OK, and what is the problem?

sick stirrup May 30, 2022, 2:26 PM

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I try to figure it out when it happens. But the "old" invoices are gone when a certain action is done

copper kraken May 30, 2022, 2:26 PM

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Well, you're speaking about an upcoming invoice, not a real past paid invoice

sick stirrup May 30, 2022, 2:26 PM

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See that. I have swapped from Business to another tier (bottom to top)

copper kraken May 30, 2022, 2:27 PM

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Past paid invoices should be viewable on both the customer and subscription

sick stirrup May 30, 2022, 2:28 PM

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If i cancel the subscription it shows me thoose 2 invoices - as expected until now.

The topest invoice is the upcomming invoice so this is clear so far

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But look now. When I subscribe to a new tier, everything else is gone

copper kraken May 30, 2022, 2:29 PM

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You're showing me your own UI -- I have no idea how that works. Is something not working for you with the Strike API/SDK?

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Forget the display -- what's not working like you expect with the data/code that drives this?

sick stirrup May 30, 2022, 2:30 PM

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My UI just renderes the /invoices api results, nothing special. So you can see the bottom pat with the header "Bisherige Rechnung" are the invoices that are gathered from the api

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If I subscribe to a new tier after a cancled subscription, the old existing invoices are gone

copper kraken May 30, 2022, 2:32 PM

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Gone from where? How are you retrieving them?

sick stirrup May 30, 2022, 2:32 PM

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sick stirrup See that. I have swapped from Business to another tier (bottom to top)

You can see here the invoice have description value of unused **** (the middle card one)

This one doesn't exist anymore if I cancel it and make a new subscriptions.

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Though the Stripe PHP SDK with laravel cashier which calls the /invoices endpoint

copper kraken May 30, 2022, 2:32 PM

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Are you listing invoices by subscription ID or customer?

sick stirrup May 30, 2022, 2:33 PM

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customerID

copper kraken May 30, 2022, 2:33 PM

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If you cancel a subscription and create a new one, you would need to retrieve the subscriptions using the previous subscription ID:
https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/list#list_invoices-subscription

Stripe API reference – List all invoices – curl

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

sick stirrup May 30, 2022, 2:33 PM

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lemme double chck if they exists on the dashbaord actualy

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You mean my primary subscription id gets overriden and the old invoices belongs to another subscription id?

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That could make sense and explain why my invoice list for the subscrption is empty

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Lemme investigate the docs you send me

copper kraken May 30, 2022, 2:37 PM

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primary subscription id
This is not a thing

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after a cancled subscription
you said you cancel a subscription before subscribing to a new server. This would be a new subscription with a new ID.

sick stirrup May 30, 2022, 2:38 PM

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Yea that makes sense. Didn't thought about that

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Is there a way to call the invoices api by customerID? * Ok I think I found it. Lemme try it out.

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I just double checked my code, it gets all invoices for a subscription. With your explanation it makes total sense why they are gone.

copper kraken May 30, 2022, 2:44 PM

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OK great, so now you have the info you need to get those invoices for the cancelled subscription separately then?

sick stirrup May 30, 2022, 2:45 PM

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I think when I just the list all method, I could get all of them at once. https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/list?lang=php

Stripe API reference – List all invoices – PHP

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

copper kraken May 30, 2022, 2:46 PM

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If you like, sure. You can use the customer and sort by subscription in your own code

sick stirrup May 30, 2022, 2:46 PM

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A canceled subscription is also a "finished" one which gets calculated until the canceled date.

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By Default Laravel allows you to do this $org->subscription('default')->invoices(); but this doesn't allow to see the other invoices which breaks my flow

copper kraken May 30, 2022, 2:50 PM

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Ah, you're using laravel

sick stirrup May 30, 2022, 2:51 PM

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halleluya

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it's working

copper kraken May 30, 2022, 2:51 PM

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I don't know what logic is adds for the customer/subscription relationship. You might need to reach out to the laravel devs/community to see what's possible there.

sick stirrup May 30, 2022, 2:51 PM

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copper kraken May 30, 2022, 2:51 PM

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🙌

sick stirrup May 30, 2022, 2:52 PM

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You saved my day. God damn I was struggling all the afternoon to figure out why invoices are gone. Shame on me

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Sometimes a good documentation is also overhelming

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jynoh looked before that but maybe you know that issue. He said thi sis not supported yet

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On a invoice item there is an description. That is computed by stripe itself. But it doesn't get localized. Do you know anything about that?

copper kraken May 30, 2022, 3:29 PM

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This is something we're looking at but is currently expected yes

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I've added your feedback here that this is not expected/desired

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